Conquering Aggregation-Induced Solid-State Luminescence Quenching of Carbon Dots through a Carbon Dots-Triggered Silica Gelation Process

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1779-1787

  Zhou, Ding ^a   Li, Di ^a   Jing, Pengtao ^a   Zhai, Yuechen ^a   Shen, Dezhen ^a   Qu, Songnan ^a   Rogach, Andrey L ^b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; GELATION; LUMINESCENCE; QUENCHING;

CARBON DOTS; GELATION PROCESS; KEY FEATURE; LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; SILICA COMPOSITES; SURFACE HYDROXYL GROUPS; TETRA-ETHYL-ORTHO-SILICATE;

SILICA;

EID: 85014049637     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b05375     Document Type: Article

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